Tech Talk Y'all

We Asked AI to Run a City and It Killed Everyone


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In this episode:

AI's Money & Power
  • Anthropic leapfrogs OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
  • Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
  • AI sticker shock hits corporate America
  • AI model simulation: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Grok vs. Gemini
  • Google hates you

AI Agents Take Action
  • Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood
  • Robinhood lets customers use AI to trade stocks, make credit card purchases

The Vatican vs. The Algorithm
  • I Read the Pope's 240-Page Encyclical. I'm Astounded by What He Wrote.
  • Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

Big Business Shakeups
  • Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down after 19 years
  • Introducing Ford Energy

Screens, Streams & Self-Driving
  • Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
  • Roku Is Revamping Its Homescreen for the First Time in Over a Decade
  • Blind Waymo Users Revel in the Joy of Riding Alone

Weird and Wacky
  • Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht docks in Seattle in the wake of Meta layoffs
  • F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home
  • Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet
  • I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse
  • Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Tech Rec:

  • Sanjay - OpenTools / OpenPrinter
  • Adam - Gibson Guitar App

Find us here:

  • sanjayparekh.com & adamjwalker.com

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